Unboxious
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- Comment on Happy 2nd Birthday Ani.Social! (+ PieFed announcement) 21 hours ago:
Thanks so much for that! I don’t care about 95% of the differences between piefed and lemmy, but that 5% is inline spoilers and since having signed up for an account here I’ve discovered I care about that a lot.
- Comment on Name an older anime you'd love to see make a full comeback? 2 days ago:
I’d love to see more G Gundam but it’s hard to imagine them actually doing that. They released a new novel though so maybe…
I just want my HG Nether Gundam kit. Is that too much to ask?! Maybe a HG Cobra Gundam too, and a RG Nobell Gundam to match RG God Gundam?
- Comment on Crunchyroll Reveals Full Summer 2025 Anime Lineup and Release Date Schedule 2 days ago:
Honestly besides more Dan Da Dan and Witch Watch I’m not seeing much to get excited over. Was hoping for Season 2 of Skip and Loafer but it seems I’ll have to wait a bit longer for that one.
- Comment on Splitting comic books into panel 3 days ago:
Even in the page given as an example here there are two speech bubbles that are pushing their boundaries.
- Comment on After attempts at Lord of the Rings and Star Wars anime, one producer is "pissed off" by Hollywood requesting everything be turned into an anime: "There are too many works to check out" 4 days ago:
I could easily see it happening, especially with how comparatively cheap anime is to produce.
- Comment on Witch Watch - Episode 11 discussion 5 days ago:
Let’s be honest, Morihito is probably way safer without her help anyways.
- Comment on What Romance Anime Do You Consider the Most Wholesome? 5 days ago:
Blue Box is pretty wholesome, especially for a shounen romance.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 25] 6 days ago:
A couple of the manga I’ve been following ended in the last couple weeks, so I’ll briefly discuss them:
Super Psychic Policeman Chojou:
The main character is of course what it says in the title. This is a gag manga, and I think it succeeded at that. Good goofs; nearly every chapter had me laughing. I’d give it a 7.5/10. A good time while it was around, but I won’t particularly miss it.
** Syd Craft: Love is a Mystery:**
This is a story about a great detective who doesn’t particularly want to be a great detective and is clueless when it comes to love. Showed some promise at first, but quickly became a generic harem thing. It actually had some decent mystery stories, and it was also still funny sometimes, but I probably wouldn’t have read it to the end if I didn’t think it was likely getting the axe soon anyways (it only survived for 28 chapters). 6/10. Maybe 100 Girlfriends raised my standards too much for what a harem manga can be, but it’s kind of damning that I find myself happy to have a few minutes of time back each week rather than sad that it got axed.
My prediction for the next WSJ manga to get axed: Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi impressed me in the first few dozen chapters with great style and a great sense of humor. It’s been letting me down in the last couple dozen chapters though with a combat arc that just goes on and on and on with the most boring-ass generic shounen fights I’ve ever seen. It’s really sad how far it’s fallen; I’m still reading it out of hope that it’ll return to humor at the end of this arc but I’m worried that the arc seems kinda final and it’ll end on the most mid note imaginable. The first half is probably an 8/10 for me but lately it’s been more of a 6/10 manga.
Meanwhile I’m re-reading Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Blue Box, and Demon Slayer in Japanese. Those have all been a lot of fun with Kaguya-sama especially showing off just how great a love comedy can be. It’s not quite perfect, but it’s close.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 25] 6 days ago:
Despite its flaws Jujutsu Kaisen will probably always be one of my favorite battle shounen. I love so much how
::: Season 1 Jujutsu Kaisen power system spoiler
Characters canonically power up by monologueing about what their powers do in the middle of battle, and there are even instances where characters hold back information while doing so to trick their opponent.
The only shounen that does not follow this formula off the top of my head is
Don’t forget Fullmetal Alchemist!
- Comment on The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 22 discussion 1 week ago:
I was wondering the same thing. It seems like there’s an awful lot of care being put into how the kids’ bodies are treated, and I don’t see why the issue would be getting this much screen time if the kids weren’t actually still alive.
- Comment on First ever Gunpla kit of the "GFreD" Gundam goes on sale 1 week ago:
I want one, but this title is kinda clickbait. You can’t actually buy one; you can only pre-order it.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 24] 1 week ago:
Mother’s Basement was streaming a watch-along of the first 3 seasons of Gag Manga Biyori (not to be confused with Non Non Biyori) so I thought “hey why not”.
That was some weird shit.
It was like watching Gintama with a sprinkling of Cromartie High. I kinda wish I had some alcohol for that, but hey there’s still seasons 4 & 5.
- Comment on New Japanese Law Stops Parents From Naming Their Baby 'Pikachu' 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but naming someone after something from an unfinished series is still a very bold move. I could imagine a world where I name a kid after a fantasy character, but definitely not one where I name them after a fantasy character from an unfinished series. I mean, who knows where things might go!
- Comment on Crunchyroll CEO Responds to Calls To Pay Japanese Anime Companies More Money for Overseas Distribution 3 weeks ago:
That means you’re going to pay for them, digital or physical
Sure. I don’t mind paying. My blu-ray for one show shouldn’t be worth more than my car though.
- Comment on Crunchyroll CEO Responds to Calls To Pay Japanese Anime Companies More Money for Overseas Distribution 3 weeks ago:
Yes. That said, the blu-ray was something like $800 even when it was new.
- Comment on Crunchyroll CEO Responds to Calls To Pay Japanese Anime Companies More Money for Overseas Distribution 3 weeks ago:
It can be expensive depending on the show. One of my favorite anime, The Legend of the Galactic Heroes, last printed DVDs in 2004. Enjoy dropping several hundred dollars for them. You can get the blu-rays but now you’re paying nearly a thousand.
- Comment on Peak Fan Sub 3 weeks ago:
I hadn’t seen peak today yet; thank you for that.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 22] 3 weeks ago:
10 years is a long time so I’ll try to be really selective:
- Kaguya-sama: Love is War - Two tsunderes have fallen for each other, and they’re trying every trick from every book to force the other person to admit it first. This is my favorite romance anime, and my favorite comedy anime as well. The manga is complete, and the anime has adapted just over half of it so far (3 seasons and 1 movie).
- Brave Bang Bravern! - Big gay robots. After all the Gundam and other shows I’ve watched I can’t believe something this silly is my favorite mech anime. It 100% deserves it though. What a sense of humor. This show is complete.
- Mob Psycho 100 - Same author as One Punch Man. A boy with psychic powers questions the value of having such a thing and tries his hardest to become the best person he can be. The same excellent writing quality you experienced with Season 1 of One Punch Man, but with even more incredible animation and a great ending. This show is complete.
- Comment on "Re:Zero" Season 4 New Teaser Visual 4 weeks ago:
That’s great! I was putting off Season 3 because I definitely need to rewatch Seasons 1 & 2 first, so now I can just go through all of those right before Season 4 releases.
- Comment on [Art] "Love Bullet" Illustration Celebrating Official English Release by Series Author inee 4 weeks ago:
That’s great news! It’s been an enjoyable one so far.
- Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #6 - Spring 2025 (Anime Trending) 4 weeks ago:
One of them is Witch Watch. It’s been fun, but I don’t think it’s better than Gundam GQuuuuuux. The other is Kowloon Generic Romance. TBH I’ve only watched a few episodes of it; it seems like a good story but right now I’m debating between continuing the show or switching to the manga since I’ve heard the anime is skipping a bunch of stuff.
- Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #6 - Spring 2025 (Anime Trending) 4 weeks ago:
I’ve heard Apocalypse Hotel is good. Hopefully I’ll find the time to give it a look soon.
- Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #6 - Spring 2025 (Anime Trending) 4 weeks ago:
It’s crazy to me that Gundam GQuuuuuux didn’t even make the list. Out of the three shows I’m watching this season it by far is my favorite. I guess people must be put off by it being part of a bigger franchise; I’ll admit some parts might make less sense to someone who hasn’t seen the original Mobile Suit Gundam…
- Comment on Fujiwater 4 weeks ago:
I love reading this guy’s words. It’s exactly the sort of thing you’d expect the writer of Chainsaw Man to write and that’s wonderful.
- Comment on Manga General Discussion Thread - RIP MangaDex Edition [2025, Week 21] 4 weeks ago:
Finished reading Fullmetal Alchemist this week, and I’ve got to say reading that climax to the soundtrack of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood was a 10/10 experience. What a great time.
Since I finished one long series I decided to start another. I’ve had all 28 volumes of the Japanese edition of Kaguya-sama: Love is War on my shelf for over a year now, but I’ve been too afraid to start it - until now! Anyways, turns out my fear was well-justified.
POV: you thought you were ready for Kaguya-sama’s vocab just because you’ve read a few other seinen manga before Kaguya saying 「お可愛いことですわね」 or “how cute” while looking down at the reader
So that’s been fun. Been learning all sorts of interesting words like 潮騒 (roar of the sea waves), or 純愛 (pure love), or 輪廻 (cycle of death and rebirth). The vocab shown off here makes Fullmetal Alchemist look simple (it wasn’t) by comparison.
Blue Box also had a nice chapter this week, so that’s been fun. I don’t like it quite as much as Kaguya-sama: Love is War, but it’s still consistently been one of my favorite love stories in manga. It might be the best shounen love story I’ve seen, though Dandadan also competes pretty hard! We’ll have to see where both of them go from here.
Speaking of Dandadan, it’s currently in the part of the arc where lots of stuff is happening and everything is absolutely insane. I’m really looking forward to seeing how that all gets resolved.
- Comment on [NEWS] Mangadex hit by massive DMCA takedown, 700+ series gone 5 weeks ago:
It’s crazy how low-res the images often are even when you pay for digital manga from the official source. I know they have higher-res images because the print version is sharper!
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 20] 5 weeks ago:
Glad you liked Cipher!
I think I just found crystal triangle on youtube
Yep, that’s the one!
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 20] 5 weeks ago:
My first time watching Steins;Gate I dropped it right about where you are for mostly the same reasons. I gave it a second try years later and I’m glad I did! It really picks up around… episode 12. Yeah. 12. It takes way too long to get exciting, but when it did I found myself unable to put it down.
- Comment on Maomao is away so Gaoshun did the mini-anime this week (The Apothecary Diaries) 5 weeks ago:
Didn’t know this existed! Thanks for putting it on my radar!
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 20] 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen anyone else looking for bad anime to listen to before! I have a few suggestions:
- Tales of Byston Well: Garzey’s Wing is possibly the worst dub I’ve ever seen, and I don’t think it was a good show in the original Japanese either. Bonus points for having been directed by someone famous.
- Cipher (1989): This is basically an hour-long music video with a bit of English dialogue. It seems to expect that you’ve already read the manga because it doesn’t seem likely someone would enjoy it otherwise.
- Crystal Triangle: I don’t remember this one too well. I think it was a pretty generic adventure where the main characters just go from place to place chasing a mcguffin and experience various anime action sequences. No clue whether a dub exists for it.
- The Way of the Househusband: this one is a little sad because it’s based off a really funny manga but it’s basically not animated at all. I don’t actually know if there’s an English dub, but if there is this would be the perfect thing for someone to listen to but not watch.
